The Islamic State (IS) claimed a suicide bombing targeting a convoy of American and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Shaddadi, the second attack targeting U.S. troops in northeastern Syria in less than a week.

An alleged Ethiopian-Canadian Islamic State (IS/ISIS) fighter was captured by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Deir al-Zour, following recent reports of other Westerner IS members arrested in the area.

Coming a month after its talks in Abu Dhabi with U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilizad and representatives of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, and subsequently threatening to stall negotiations due to U.S. "insincerity," the Afghan Taliban acknowledged that it engaged in dialogue with American representatives in Doha.

The Afghan Taliban claimed killing over 90 Afghan commanders, officers, and troops, and wounding more than 100 others, in a three-man suicide raid at a National Directorate of Security (NDS) base in Wardak province.

Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam Muslimeen (JNIM), al-Qaeda's (AQ) branch in Mali, claimed credit for the attack on a MINUSMA base in the north of the country, killing 10 Chadian peacekeepers, and declared it a response to Chadian President Idriss Deby renewing diplomatic relations with Israel.